# We're getting snow tonight. Predict how much! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027 "2007-02-13T16:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/1 "2007-02-13T16:06:27Z")
Here’s your chance to show off your prognostication skills. Use any resources at your disposal to predict how much snowfall we get in Boston from the time it starts 'till the time it ends. Talk around the water cooler is we’re getting a foot or more, though [Boston.com](http://Boston.com) is forecasting 4 inches, then sleet, then freezing rain (gotta love Boston). :rolleyes: So take a guess. Whoever guesses closest to the actual snowfall total without going over gets a free 2007 Cadillac Escalade\*! \*All right, that’s a lie. The actual prize is _Bragging Rights_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/2 "2007-02-13T16:14:15Z")
I’d prefer bragging rights to a Cadillac Escalade any day, unless I could just take the cash value of the Escalade. Why would I want a car that says, “I am an arrogant boor”? I predict that you get six inches, with a nice glaze on top. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/3 "2007-02-14T03:58:15Z")
If it’s anything like the snowfall in Chicago, the answer is “a freaking lot”. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/4 "2007-02-14T04:20:09Z")
An Escalade? Give me [this](http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevy-Suburban_W0QQitemZ280082024289QQihZ018QQcategoryZ6155QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) instead. A quarter of the price of a new Escalade, 100 times the character, and 1,000 times the balls. _That’s_ a vehicle that I’d want in the war against Old Man Winter. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/5 "2007-02-15T15:42:46Z")
Well, we got a few inches of snow (less than 6, though, Sunspace), then sleet, freezing rain, rain, then it got really cold. So There’s about 2 inches of rock-hard ice covering everything that hasn’t been plowed, shoveled sanded and salted. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/6 "2007-02-15T16:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Well, we got a few inches of snow (less than 6, though, Sunspace), then sleet, freezing rain, rain, then it got really cold. So There’s about 2 inches of rock-hard ice covering everything that hasn’t been plowed, shoveled sanded and salted. Good times. [/QUOTE] So, I guess I was right about the “nice glaze”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/7 "2007-02-15T17:24:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] So, I guess I was right about the “nice glaze”? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yes, you were right on the money, in that regard. My car slid about 5 feet sideways at the end of my driveway. :eek: My daughter was in the back seet saying “Daddy! How did you _do that_?” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-snow-tonight-predict-how-much/392027/8 "2007-02-15T17:57:15Z")
Jay Peak is reporting 60", Stowe 44". If I didn’t have to work today you know where I’d be. I’m headed north on Friday. 🙂